Specialist Speech and Language Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you passionate about providing a high-quality service to stroke patients? Are you an ambitious individual who relishes a challenge? Lincolnshire’s Stroke Service is a dynamic, continuously developing service.

As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Lincolnshire Stroke Service, you will provide high quality stroke rehabilitation to patients on the hyper acute and acute stroke unit at Lincoln County Hospital. If you are a team player with a special interest in the area of stroke, look no further, we are looking to recruit to this post. You would be supported and mentored by your SLT band 7 and band 6 colleagues. The service has access to videofluoroscopy and FEES therefore you would be eligible for future instrumental training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

You will deliver high quality patient centred care and rehabilitation to people who have recently experienced a stroke. You will assess and manage communication and swallowing impairments, devise therapy care plans suitable for assistants and participate in service development.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) of specialist Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Dietitians, Nurses and Medics. Experience of MDT, working with stroke and skills in dysphagia (including management of eating and drinking with acknowledged risk) are a key aspect of this role.

You will participate in the collection of Speech and Language Therapy data for SSNAP (Stroke Sentinel National Audit Programme).

Weekend working is part of the service therefore you will need to be flexible to accommodate this according to service demand.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Speech and Language Therapy degree
  • HCPC registration
  • Registered member of RCSLT
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development e.g. post grad dysphagia training

Desirable

  • Post reg qualifications related to stroke
  • Clinical educator training

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of having worked as a speech and language therapist for adults. Having an in depth knowledge of assessment, diagnosis, treatment and case load management within a broad range of clinical areas and experience of working with more complex cases or those within a specialist area of interest.

Desirable

  • Experience of stroke
  • Experience of acute and community working
  • MDT experience
  • Experience of supervising therapy assistants
  • Knowledge and use of AAC

Knowledge/skills

Essential

  • Knowledge of specialist area- assessment and treatment tools.
  • Effective communicator
  • Organised and able to prioritise
  • Able to work well within a team

Desirable

  • Knowledge of safeguarding

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

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